Puts our winter weather into perspective, don't it?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d...ists-chill-out-with-a-rugby-match-on-the-ice/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d...ists-chill-out-with-a-rugby-match-on-the-ice/
I question their leggings.
I question their leggings.
Puts our winter weather into perspective, don't it?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d...ists-chill-out-with-a-rugby-match-on-the-ice/
January in Antarctica? So now Rugby Union is a summer sport! Jeez!
They could probably play in the winter but the -50°c temperatures and frequent 100 km/h winds with a chill factor down to -100°C or lower would make Rugby a difficult prospect, not to mention that it is pitch black 24/7 at that time of year, and the use of precious fuel for floodlighting would be difficult to justify.
January in Antarctica? So now Rugby Union is a summer sport! Jeez!
Didn't you know? It's been a "summer sport" for quite a while.
Clubs like Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge and Steamboat Springs can't find much open grass from September to April and so in the Eastern Rockies RFU they play in the summer.
That ment that the "city clubs" would basically play from March to November. June, July and August were light duty months for us "flatlanders" but we would have a match or a tourneyment at least 2 times a month .
I'm not actually saying that the winter months never had any rugby. Just that it was a rare event. Take the 10 a side St. Valentine's Day Massacre held in Breckenridge avery year.
You don't know what feeling isolated is until you break through the snow crust and you have one leg hip deep in the powder and 4 opponents closing on you.